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The impact of complete spinal cord transection and BDNF overexpression on the subunit composition and phosphorylation state of AMPAR and NMDAR on MNs innervating ankle flexor and extensor muscles

2018/31/N/NZ4/02773

Keywords:

Motoneuron spinal cord injury AMPAR NMDAR BDNF phosphrylation

Descriptors:

  • NZ4_7: Neurophysiology
  • NZ3_5: Molecular neurobiology

Panel:

NZ4 - Biology of tissues, organs and organisms: morphology and functions of animal's and human's systems, organs and organisms, experimental medicine, basics of neurology

Host institution :

Instytut Biologii Doświadczalnej im. Marcelego Nenckiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Benjun Ji 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM 16 - announced on 2018-09-14

Amount awarded: 70 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2019-07-22

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-04-21

Project duration:: 21 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  1. BDNF Spinal Overexpression after Spinal Cord Injury Partially Protects Soleus Neuromuscular Junction from Disintegration, Increasing VAChT and AChE Transcripts in Soleus but Not Tibialis Anterior Motoneurons
    Authors:
    Anna Głowacka, Benjun Ji, Andrzej Antoni Szczepankiewicz, Małgorzata Skup and Olga Gajewska-Woźniak
    Academic press:
    Biomedicines (rok: 2022, tom: 10(11), 2851, strony: 27), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/biomedicines10112851 - link to the publication
  2. Molecular Identification of Pro-Excitogenic Receptor and Channel Phenotypes of the Deafferented Lumbar Motoneurons in the Early Phase after SCT in Rats
    Authors:
    Benjun Ji, Bartosz Wojtaś and Małgorzata Skup
    Academic press:
    International Journal of Molecular Sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 23(19), 11133, strony: 23), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/ijms231911133 - link to the publication
  3. Roles of palmitoylation in structural long-term synaptic plasticity
    Authors:
    Benjun Ji and Małgorzata Skup
    Academic press:
    Molecular Brain (rok: 2021, tom: (2021) 14:8, strony: 27), Wydawca: BioMed Central (BMC), Springer Nature
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1186/s13041-020-00717-y - link to the publication